Micellar Catalysis of Chemical Reactions by Mixed Surfactant Systems and Gemini Surfactants

Hassan, Mohammed; Al-Hazmi, Sadeq M.; Alhagri, Ibrahim A.; Al‐Hakimi, Ahmed N.; Dahadha, Adnan A.; Al-Dhoun, Mohammad; Batineh, Yazan

doi:10.14233/ajchem.2021.23187

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“…58 During the evolution of life, the hydrophobic pockets formed in water by enzymes or cell membranes served as vessels for lipophilic species to promote chemical reaction. [64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71] Similar to enzymes and cell membranes, micelles also consisted of hydrophilic and hydrophobic portions, and thus could self-assemble into nanoreactor in water to speed up reactions. 65,72,73 Here, the SDS micelles had a hydrophobic cavity and a negatively charged surface, like a microscopic reaction center, where positively charged substrates were adsorbed at the micelle interface or filled with hydrophobic core.…”

Section: Cascade Reaction Of Nanozyme-based Crnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71] Similar to enzymes and cell membranes, micelles also consisted of hydrophilic and hydrophobic portions, and thus could self-assemble into nanoreactor in water to speed up reactions. 65,72,73 Here, the SDS micelles had a hydrophobic cavity and a negatively charged surface, like a microscopic reaction center, where positively charged substrates were adsorbed at the micelle interface or filled with hydrophobic core. As a result of concentrating reactants into a tiny volume, the reactants were enriched and the reaction rate was significantly higher than in the bulk solution.…”

Section: Cascade Reaction Of Nanozyme-based Crnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rational Design of Functional and Tunable Nanozymatic Networks

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Metabolism is maintained by complex systems far from equilibrium, which consist of a multitude networks of enzymatic reaction. While the working principles of biology’s regulatory networks are well known, assembling unbalanced enzymatic reaction networks in vitro has proven challenging. The development of synthetic systems with autonomous behavior is therefore limited. Herein, a transition metal-N-doped carbon was reported as a functional unit for rational design of programmable functional reaction networks that exhibit dynamic behavior. We demonstrated that a network built around feedback and feedforward mechanism, along with other functions, such as deceleration, anaplerotic reaction, and cascade reaction by linking multiple network modules in microfluidic flow reactors. Interestingly, as a result, selective recognition of reductive biological small molecules was demonstrated using the proposed network. The methodology developed here provided a general framework to construct dissipative, tunable and robust (bio)chemical reaction networks, and extended biological applications of life-like materials.

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